Japan and Australia, sponsors of rival grand commissions when a potential nuclear-free window opened at the cold war's end, have joined forces to set up a new one.
Ouyang advocates eventually mining the moon for minerals such as titanium and for potential nuclear fuels such as helium-3.
As great a potential threat as nuclear weapons proliferation - and as demanding of a coordinated international response - is the threat from failing and unstable states.
Though the utilities will no longer reap the potential profits of operating their nuclear plants longer, the government said they will still be subject to a new tax on nuclear-fuel rods introduced this year to offset those potential gains.
These are all very important, but nevertheless, we are left at that point with Saddam Hussein building potential nuclear weapons, having chemical capability -- which he's used before -- and an enormous army that could be a threat, once again, very rapidly.
Glassification of nuclear wastes also has great potential in a pollution-conscious world.
Also following the 2004 tsunami, UNESCO-IOC and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) agreed to explore the potential of using data from the International Monitoring System (IMS) for tsunami warning purposes.
Only last year, she said, Egli and Paull and their colleagues demonstrated that the nuclear transfer of eggs cells could generate patient-specific stem cell lines for potential cell replacement therapy to treat diseases like diabetes.
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If such a reactor could meet the targets claimed for it by its proponents (a big if, says Harvard's Mr Bunn), it has the potential to be cheaper than existing types of nuclear energy, safe from Chernobyl-style large accidents, and more proliferation-resistant than typical reactors.
Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, toured the power plant, to question the need for nuclear energy and raise alarms about a potential environmental catastrophe.
Moreover, most of these potential front-burner challenges to vital U.S. security interests involve ostensibly civilian nuclear reactor projects.
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Among all the energy-supply technologies, the three with the biggest potential today are solar power, wind power and nuclear power.
Then there is the Atomium, a giant-sized more-or-less model of an atom put up in 1958 as a tribute to the potential of the nuclear age.
The summit itself, which the President initiated with the summit he held here in Washington, reflects his extraordinary commitment to the issue of nuclear security globally -- because there is really no greater threat to the security of the American people than the potential for terrorists to acquire nuclear weapons.
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